republicans expel a democrat from the house legislature for protesting gun violence on the house floor right now to more democratic lawmakers are also staring down. expulsion votes, also breaking escalating violence in the middle east. israel striking gaza tonight after facing a barrage of rocket attacks, the israeli ambassador to the united states is standing by to join me this hour. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i m alex marquardt, and you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we begin our coverage tonight in nashville, tennessee, where a democratic lower democratic lawmaker, a democratic lawmaker was just expelled from the state legislature after protesting gun violence on the house floor. cnn s ryan young has been on the scene all day. for us, ryan. there are two more democrats who are also in jeopardy of being ousted tonight. what is the latest in nashville? alex. people are exasperate
of the 12 page report also places blame on the trump administration. area bruises at the white house. tracking severe storms of this hour, dangerous thunderstorms and damaging winds in washington, d.c., to philadelphia to new york. heavy rain and flood watches from texas to tennessee into the weekend. rob marciano times it all out. the massive avalanche near a ski resort in utah, ski patrol and rescue dogs search for possible victims trapped under the snow. israel strikes back. israeli forces hit targets in the gaza strip, retaliating after accusing palestinian groups of launching 36 rockets from lebanon into israel. matt is in israel tonight. you re at home, the new report accusing supreme court justice clarence thomas of accepting luxury trips for years from major republican mega donor and not reporting them. that donor is now pushing back and defending justice thomas. a doctor charged with allegedly trying to pose and her husband by putting drano in his drinks. her husband
some were violent and some turned deadly. william was killed in the confrontation between national guardsmen and students protesting the war in vietnam at kent state university. joe lewis was shot twice that day as was allen both survived and feel it necessary to remember the four who died understanding it could easily have been them it was a tense time troops coming home called baby killers. might be ripped out of a classroom and september to a jungle. they protested civil rights, women s rights, antiwar. these movements changed the course of history. today college kids want to be in the history books too. but they don t know what to protest. segregation is illegal. there is no draft and women have more rights than us sure, there s problems, crime, fentanyl, chinese balloons. but these kids don t care about any of that so they protest words pronouns and isms. lock themselves in a building for 10 days, why? because they wanted more money for the quote division of institutio
good evening. tonight, what s next for ukraine? the ukrainian people in the war for their survival? it s turned into a confrontation between the world s two largest nuclear powers. a year ago tonight, early morning local time, russian forces began rolling into ukraine for what the kremlin expected would be a quick and easy takeover of the country. what they unleashed instead was the largest land conflict in europe since the second world war, and some of the widespread killing of non combatants since world war ii, as well. [speaking non-english] she it, she it, shift [speaking non-english] stay down! all right. [bleep ] come on, medic! medic! that video of a russian mortar attack on fleeing civilians in irpin came just two weeks into the invasion. since then, we have seen graphic evidence of other russian war crimes, including some recent shootings of civilians in bucha and elsewhere. upwards of 800 attacks on hospitals and other health care facilities, accord
happens. let s go to mcallen, texas, on-site hearing, a field trip, if you will, at the highest level at the southern border after what you saw broke off on sunday. a bum rush in el paso, texas. some of them had already booked travel, democrats are pulling out of this unique opportunity to get hands on after the border crisis. again, the white house with a familiar line today calling the hearing itself a stunt. any news and we ll bring it to you immediately. get to this. tensions escalating. united states and russia blaming each other after a warplane crashed into an american drone over the black sea. it is first known encounter between the two militaries since the start of the ukraine war a bit more than a year ago. i m harris faulkner, you are in the faulkner focus. flighter jet clipped propeller of the reaper drone as it flew over the black sea yesterday. the hit forced american operators to bring down the $32 million drone. national security council spokesman john kirby